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Grusendorf was reared in [[Waco, Texas|Waco]] in north Central Texas. He procured a band scholarship to the University of Texas at Arlington, then known as Arlington State College. When he arrived in Arlington, possibly in the early 1960s, he had only his French horn and $90 in his pocket.<ref name=uta/> He also attended [[Baylor University]] in Waco, but the time of his studies there is unclear.<ref name=bio/>
Grusendorf married the former Nancy Ellen Todd of Waco, the daughter of Randall Woodrow Todd and the former Edna Thelma Dodge (1914-1988). The couple had one child, Darryl Kent Grusendorf, Jr., who was born in 1962 in Grand Prairie in Dallas County. The young family moved to Arlington, but in 1965, after Grusendorf received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree from UTA, they relocated to Parma, near [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] in Cuyahoga County, [[Ohio]]. They returned in 1970 to Arlington. Their son, an honor student at Bowie High School in Arlington, died at the age of seventeen in 1979. He is interred at Moore Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Arlington.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSsp=46879854&GRid=20257632&|title=Darryl Kent Grusendorf, Jr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=September 16, 2011}}</ref>
Oddly only eight days before he lost to Diane Patrick, Grusendorf transferred $58,000 in unused funds from his 2006 campaign committee to the Campaign for Republican Leadership, his [[political action committee]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.chron.com/texaspolitics/2006/03/kent-grusendorf-campaign-committee/|title=Kent Grusendorf Campaign Committee|publisher=blog.chron.com|accessdate=September 15, 2011}}</ref>
After his divorce from Barbara the former Nancy Todd, Grusendorf married and was by the year 2000 divorced from the former Barbara Lynn Thompson, a Republican activist and a Texas elector in 2004 for [[U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]].<ref>List of United States presidential electors, 2004</ref>
